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‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…’ : Charles Dickens in Tale of Two Cities.
The author’s reflections on Britain in the mid nineteenth century now echo in 21st century India, trapped as we are in our own Dickensian moment. If 2020 was the year of doom and gloom, 2021 is where hope alternates with despair in surreal discomfort. Early year optimism that the worst was over has descended into deepening concerns over a ‘second’ Corona wave.